Nathaniel Hawthorne /
editor, Jack Lynch.
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2010.
- vii, 336 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical insights .
- Critical insights. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On Nathaniel Hawthorne / Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne / Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Hawthorne and the canon of American literature / Nathaniel Hawthorne's critical reception / burden of secret sin: Nathaniel Hawthorne's fiction / Nathaniel Hawthorne and American romanticism / scarlet letter / Chiefly about Coverdale: The Blithedale romance / Re-figuring revelations: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Hawthorne as essayist: Our old home and "Chiefly about war matters" / small heap of glittering fragments": Hawthorne's discontent with the short story form / Hawthorne and nineteenth-century perfectionism / Progress and providence in The house of the seven gables / Narrative techniques and the oral tradition in The scarlet letter / Hawthorne and the sublime / Hawthorne, the fall, and the psychology of maturity / Nathaniel Hawthorne and his mother: a biographical speculation / Agnostic tensions in Hawthorne's short stories / Jack Lynch -- Frank Day -- Elaine Blair -- Bridget M. Marshall -- Matthew J. Bolton -- Margarita Georgieva -- Jennifer Banach Palladino -- Hugo McPherson -- Clark Davis -- Evans Lansing Smith -- Thomas R. Moore -- Kathryn B. McKee -- Claudia D. Johnson -- John Gatta, Jr. -- John G. Bayer -- Leo B. Levy -- Melvin W. Askew -- Nina Baym -- Bill Christopherson. The The The "A